From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #195 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, July 13 2001 Volume 07 : Number 195 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Strawberry Music Festival [Phil Hudson ] Two questions ["Renee Campbell" ] Re: Two questions [Sue Trowbridge ] Ben Folds, Overbites, Todd Rundgren ["Lyle Howard" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:57:17 -0700 From: Phil Hudson Subject: RE: Strawberry Music Festival Ooops sorry folks! I forgot the URL. www.strawberrymusic.com For those unfamiliar, it takes place at Mather Camp in Yosemite on Memorial and Labor Day weekends, it normally has a wide and eclectic range of performers, given the festival's actual roots a bluegrass meet, and is also notable for the high percentage of accoustic musicians who attend; there are myriad jams going on just about everywhere and anytime during the weekend. There is a quiet area for families with kids to camp, and the only other main music rules are, no electric instruments and no complaining about your neighbors playing all night ( that's what the quiet camping area is for!) There is a pirate radio station that broadcasts every stage peformance, and an open mic breakfast every am, in addition to dinner concerts at the breakfast hall. Lots of workshops put on by the performers; it's really great to see them play a few songs and then answer questions about their work or instruments. It is also one of the most static-free fests around, very friendly, family oriented, no hordes of drunken revellers playing Ozzie on a cheap boombox at 3am, and generally one of the most polite and easy-going festival crowds I have experienced. I work security there in exchange for free admission so I get to listen in to the security issues on the radio; there aren't many. ( issues, that is, not radios) Hope to see you there. phil - -----Original Message----- From: Bill [mailto:bill@wagill.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 6:47 PM To: ecto@smoe.org; Phil Hudson Subject: Re: Strawberry Music Festival On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 18:01:50 -0700, Phil Hudson wrote: >Any Ectos planning on Strawberry in Yosemite this Labor Day? > >Erin Mckeown, Mohatella Queens, Mary Black, Irene Farrera are some of the >acts on the lineup. Irene Farrera??!! Yowser, that alone would make it worth the trip. I wasn't even aware of this festival; Phil, may you point me/us to some info on it? Thanks. - - Bill G. np: Neneh Cherry - Homebrew ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:05:01 -0400 From: "Renee Campbell" Subject: Two questions Ok.. I have two questions... ~ Does anyone know if Happy is going to be at Ectofest? I really want to see her, and I don't want to drive all the way from Erie PA, unless she will be there... if anyone knows.. please let me know!! Also, I am so upset, because my 'Rhodes songs' CD seems to have been mauled by some horrid thing, and nothing can fix it... I was wondering if anyone knows where I can get a cheap copy, or maybe someone can offer up some ways to save my CD, it's my favorite HR album... this is so sad... Thank you ~Renee *Some said I was wrong tp dream that way, and some made light of death and sorrow, but death is glory now...- Roz Williams _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:30:18 -0700 From: Sue Trowbridge Subject: Re: Two questions At 02:05 PM 7/12/01 -0400, Renee Campbell wrote: >Also, I am so upset, because my 'Rhodes songs' CD seems to have been >mauled by some horrid thing, and nothing can fix it... >I was wondering if anyone knows where I can get a cheap copy, or maybe >someone can offer up some ways to save my CD, it's my favorite HR album... Happy has RhodeSongs on sale this month at http://auntiesocialmusic.com/ - --Sue np: light classical hold music on the SBC tech support line ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 23:47:03 From: "Lyle Howard" Subject: Ben Folds, Overbites, Todd Rundgren Hola, I've been too lazy to respond to Lord Tyr's comments on Ben Folds, but work is over and I have a sudden burst of energy. I enjoy Mr. Folds and his rhythm section. His songs are cynical and funny, but the melodies and pounding piano make the sonic experience lighter, bouncier. Kind of like Steely Dan singing about grim things and using latin rhythmic touches and humor to keep you from heading for the medicine cabinet and the razor. I will miss Folds' bass player. You don't often hear fuzzed up bass since Cream has passed into myth and Jack Bruce got a transistor amp. Oddly, most of the time I read about Ben Folds he is compared to Todd Rundgren. It must be the whimsy that they share. Todd did spend a lot of time pounding on the keyboards, too. I also wonder if music writers aren't subconsciously aware that Folds and Rundgren share an overbite. Well, not the same overbite, but each one has an overbite. I haven't seen a picture of Ben Folds, but I bet he has prominent front teeth. How would the history of the universe have unfolded if Folds, Rundgren, Knopfler, and Fagen had had braces? They all have varying degrees of lisps coloring the sound of their voices. Joni Mitchell looks like she should have a lisp, but I can't detect one in the CDs I own. And lest you think I have anything against people with prominent front teeth, I still have a crush on a woman with the loveliest overbite in the world. Something about her facial structure makes you think she is smiling all the time. Speaking of Rundgren: I've been listening to _Reconstructed_ for several days now. This album has the vocals to most of his hits laid over mixes he farmed out to other musicians. This is an album for Todd fans only. "Bang on the Drum All Day" and "Hello, It's Me" each get covered twice. Of the 14 cuts, seven are good. Even several of the good mixes manage to provide irritants by dropping in cliched sounds. That hip hop squeal thing turns up way too often on one mix. One version of "Hello It's Me" has been given a reggae flavor to good effect. The best cut on the album is a salsified version of "Bang the Drum All Day." One of the cleverest bits of mixing comes when the sound of a straw being sucked loudly in the introduction to "Love is Infectious" (_Something/Anything_)turns up as a rhythmic device in one of the remixes. It would be interesting to hear what some really topflight remixers could do with Rundgren. His vocals are great, as are his melodies, and would make good launching pads for unusual mixes. I keep reading about some remixers getting $50,000 a shot, so I can see why Rundgren didn't go with the best remixers. Okay, enough geekishness with Rundgren. Bye, Lyle n.r. _The Physics of Immortality_, can't remember the author. It is certainly entertaining, what with the quantum physics being interspersed with the philosophy and the theology. And it touches on one of my favorite subjects of late, parallel worlds. Many worlds are born tonight; we just can't see them. Unless we dream them. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:06:38 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Two questions Hi, Renee wondered: >~ Does anyone know if Happy is going to be at Ectofest? That's still up in the air, pending the health of her hand. We hope to get that all nailed down ASAP, though -- time's getting short and I know people will need time to make plans. >I really want to see her, and I don't want to drive all the way from Erie >PA, unless she will be there... if anyone knows.. please let me know!! Well, I'd recommend coming anyway. Everyone we've got on the bill is really really cool and there will be lots of ectophiles and it's all for a great cause. You won't be sorry you made the trip!! ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org ======================================= ectofest 2001: August 25, 2001 A benefit for RAINN Kenosia Lake Park, Danbury, CT http://www.ectofest.org ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #195 **************************